Re: [PATCH 2/3] 285: Fix file syncing

[Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu 30-05-13 08:47:30, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 5/30/13 7:45 AM, Jan Kara wrote:
> > The intention of tests 08 and 09 in test generic/285 is to sync the
> > whole file before checking for data and holes. However the helper is
> > called with nbytes argument set to 0 which results in not syncing
> > anything. Set nbytes properly.
> 
> Hm, are you sure? (Is the man page wrong, or is the sync_file_range
> implementation wrong?)
> 
> DESCRIPTION
>        sync_file_range()  permits  fine  control when synchronizing the
>        open file referred to by the file descriptor fd with disk.
> 
>        offset is the starting byte of the file  range  to  be  synchro-
>        nized.   nbytes specifies the length of the range to be synchro-
>        nized, in bytes; if nbytes is zero, then all bytes  from  offset
>        through to the end of file are synchronized.
  My fault that I didn't read the manpage carefully enough. Scratch this
patch.

                                                                Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR